The Blue Panther Anniversary show was announced as taking place on 10/19 during the broadcast. There’s still a Mascara 2000 Anniversary show to be scheduled. The annual legends show will be on 11/30.

Show was just OK and iPPVs need to be better than OK. The Gran Prix was longer but not better than previous years. None of the undercard was really special. The fans did not seem into it and did not turn out as much as the last few years, despite that 10 pesos ticket deal. My theory on the Park/Rush bait and switch was CMLL would do fine on the Aniversario show and the bad feelings about it would hurt the turnout to the other shows. The other shows seem to be hurting, though I can’t prove that’s why.

Avispa Dorada wrote about the process of starting with CMLL on her blog a few days ago. She’s been in Mexico since April on a tourist visa, training three days a week in Arena Mexico. She made a good impression, and CMLL told her they were putting in for a work visa for her in early August. It was approved at the end of August. There’s a female boxer using “La Avispa”, so CMLL didn’t want to use her to use the same exact name, but they approved her suggestion to simply change it to Avispa Dorada – her wasp (avispa) tattoo caused them to agree she shouldn’t change her name all that much. Interestingly, Paco Alonso is mentioned as being in the meeting where she was suggesting names.

Timing also probably helped out Avispa Dorada a bit. Kaho Kobayashi was supposed to be in Mexico now and probably would’ve been in that match instead. She missed her trip due to injury. Maligna & Mystique would be next picks, only they’re in Japan too. Estrellita doesn’t appear to be full time if she’s even still meant to be an active part of CMLL. Skadi is showing up occasionally on the indies but hasn’t appeared to be cleared back to CMLL. There’s a window of time for both Avispa and La Guerrera to get more regular work and see if they can make an impression.

Dragon Lee was not eliminated on Exatlon and remains on at least another week. There are 20 people left.

Main event is a rematch from two years ago, which aired as a $1 PPV that CMLL didn’t ever try again. UG won that one and probably will win this one.

Two straight weeks with no Scharly Rockstar. LA Park appeared to want nothing to do with Ciber after their match last night, so that’ll be interesting.

Finlay is the only other guy from team Rest of the World sticking around for the full week. I guess we shoud’ve figured this out when he wasn’t on the NJPW PPV on the 10/08 show; he can make it back for the next tour even after this show.

Titan is back from injury in what looks like a fun match. Avispa Dorada gets booked two weeks in a row. The opener is smaller version of the same match, with Camorra back around. More Camorra is a bad thing.